Legal Interpretation: Towards a New Paradigm?
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Publication date: 11.05.2020
Teoria Polityki, 2020, No. 4/2020, pp. 79 - 92
https://doi.org/10.4467/25440845TP.19.017.11783Authors
Legal Interpretation: Towards a New Paradigm?
This paper considers the foundations of legal interpretation against the background of the theory of embodied cognition and mental simulation. It is argued that interpretation has a double, concrete-abstract nature. The understanding of concrete language is made possible by the mechanism of mental simulation. In turn, the interpretation of abstract language (and hence of most of legal language) requires to apply the procedures of exemplification, paraphrase and embedding. The relationship between these two modes of language comprehension is analyzed and the thesis is defended that they represent two extremes of a continuous spectrum rather than isolated mechanisms. Finally, the significance of such a conception of interpretation for legal methodology is considered. It is argued that the conception provides a unifying, foundational framework for any theory of legal interpretation, as well as generates fresh insights into the nature of understanding legal statutes.
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Information: Teoria Polityki, 2020, No. 4/2020, pp. 79 - 92
Article type: Original article
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Legal Interpretation: Towards a New Paradigm?
Legal Interpretation: Towards a New Paradigm?
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
Published at: 11.05.2020
Article status: Open
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